upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:from the to-the-moon-Alice dept.SpaceX moon passenger Yusaku Maezawa has 20,000 applicants to be girlfriend he takes on journey:
canopic jug writes:The GNU/Linux-based smartphone, PinePhone, has begun shipping. It uses the same Quad-Core ARM Cortex A53 64-Bit System on a Chip (SOC) as the the Pine64 Single Board Computer (SBC) and thus it also runs mainstream GNU/Linux. The goal is to provide a hardware platform for a wider variety of Linux-on-Phone projects. Hardware availability is expected to be five years.Lilliputing: PinePhone Braveheart Linux smartphone begins shipping January 17th
Mozilla Lays Off 70 People as Non-search Revenue Fails to Materializeupstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:Mozilla lays off 70 people as non-search revenue fails to materialize:
canopic jug writes:The Insurance Journal is asking if the NotPetya Windows worm was an act of war. If so, that would change any potential obligations carried by insurance policies towards claimants, in this case Merck & Co. NotPetya took over Windows computers in 2017 but was apparently originally intended to target Ukrainian Windows computers. The rest of the Windows computers may have just been collateral damage.
RandomFactor writes:University of Michigan researchers have determined that the class of proteins known as Sestrins mimic the effects of exercise in mice and flies.
upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:What can we rid the world of, thinks Google... Poverty? Disease? Inequality? Yeah, but first: Third-party cookies – and classic user-agent strings:
upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:Living robots built using frog cells: Tiny 'xenobots' assembled from cells promise advances from drug delivery to toxic waste clean-up:
canopic jug writes:The case Google v. Oracle America, previously named Oracle America, Inc. v. Google, Inc., is being heard by the US Supreme Court. At the center of the case is whether programmers require permission to use an application programming interface (API). The outcome will determine the extent to which APIs can or should be copyrighted. If it turns out that copyright can be used to lock competitors out of using any given API, then there are severe repercussions for software development, as all programs these days rely heavily on pre-existing libararies which are then accessed via APIs.Google: The case for open innovation:
RandomFactor writes:A new theoretical framework is allowing neural networks to learn and recognize patterns on geometric surfaces.Neural networks based on the visual cortex, called